What has gotten into y'all?

Go with the credit unions. Fuck the banks. Originally Posted by trynagetlaid

I remember when credit unions used to be somehow associated with your place of work, or some other organization you were involved in. They were somehow "part of the family." Now, they can cater to almost anyone, they've sort of lost touch with their membership, and are getting sort of big, impersonal, and "corporate."

I agree they're still better than banks in many cases.

Go with the credit unions. Fuck the banks. Originally Posted by trynagetlaid

Yup, even the credit unions have become this way though. Recently tried to go with Randolph Brooks which I've heard good things about. They were interested in all kinds of things that weren't any of their business. So, I'll stick with my current credit union.

Of course you're right, stay away from the big banks who are screwing us left and right even if we don't use them. I don't get how anyone uses Chase or Citi - get FEEd to death and get maximally fucked any time anything goes wrong. They've used the bailouts they didn't deserve to spread their idiotic branches to every strip mall in the country even as they don't even try hard to do traditional banking anymore and instead just milk off the taxpayer subsidized free interest spreads they get from the bank owned unfederal reserve. oh damn, there i go again LOL

Hey goldman sachs

All I have to say is read last months News week or better yet go watch 2016!!!!! Then make an educated choice come election day!!!! Just saying

2016? Really? Honestly, do you really believe that piece of propaganda? Obama can do all of that in four more years.... As the OP said:

an entire substrata of society who is incapable of independent thought, but gets their dogma from the mid-level political hacks who are assigned to confuse and misguide the ignorant.

There's nothing better than small neighborhood banks, but we will never see them again. There's no way me or my Dad and millions of others could have started small businesses without them. Nowadays if you want to start a small business like a sandwich shop or cafe you have to save up the money, or borrow from a family member.

Only the rich get richer, you have to have money to make money, all those cliches apply now more than ever before. When was the last time you ever talked to anyone who started a business on an SBA loan?

Hmmm, I mention news week and 2016 and the first lady mentions her husbands father once in her speech???? It was all about his grandmother!! Do your research and make an educated choice come election day.

Choices:

a. "Gordon Gecko" Romney, vulture capitalist neocon/neolib
Platform: finish private equity takeover of america - job elimination making great strides, actually from the sector that needs the most reform - nothing to see here, asset stripping in progress, changed his mind on so many things - will reflip coins after elected, if you think you've seen arrogance you ain't seen nothing yet!

b. "You thought I was FDR... suckers!" Obama
Platform: make great speeches and do the opposite of what you said, continue wiping out constitution, pander to easy to bribe voters with token handouts in education and other unsustainable programs. No white collar crime is big enough to prosecute! Melt down nobel peace prize for extra ammo to take over additional countries in the middle east.


Mitt Obama - the corporations can have whatever they want, the uppity serfs can suck it. And don't forget LIE LIE LIE - the bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.

Hmmm, I mention news week and 2016 and the first lady mentions her husbands father once in her speech???? It was all about his grandmother!! Do your research and make an educated choice come election day. Originally Posted by Passion2015

What exactly are you saying, Passion? That you buy into the Bizzarro Michael Moore's conspiracy

Try the Kool Aid! It's breathtaking and stays fresh for a thousand days of darkness.

Oh yeah, educated is a KEY word here.

All anyone has to remember is what Bush did to the constitution and to the country. He was Sooo bad for us that a country with a 100% white president history overwhelmingly voted in a black man with a 100% Muslim name right after 9/11. That's says it all.

Of course Obama has proven even worse. What I fail to see is how an educated vote of either of these candidates is going to fare well for the future of this country.

Wouldn't it be great if it could be organized for absolutely no one to vote at all , as a protest to our lame ass government ?